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River Flood Warning 82, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 16, 2009Lee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Dec 16, 2009, 8:46 AM EST for Lee County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 16, 2009, 9:28 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2009, 8:46 AM EST (13:46 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 16, 2009, 9:28 AM EST
Expired: Dec 17, 2009, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Flood severity: Minor

County Lee County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Muckalee Creek near Leesburg (SR 195) (MCKG1). The gauge peaked at 14.95 ft at Dec 16, 2009, 10:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02351890, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 15, 2:18 PM EST, 18 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 2:18 PM EST, 18 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 11:07 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	3 days
Dec 16, 1:34 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Terrell, Webster	23 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.